Grants provide new resource for moms

11:59 AM,
Feb. 7, 2013

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A new resource that might help new moms who are on medications to continue to breastfeed is being made available thanks to a grant to Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital from the Wisconsin Association of Lactation Consultants, WALC.

The grant, prepared by and awarded to Mary Ann Krainz, the hospital's lactation consultant, will provide the book Medications and Mother's Milk to Marshfield Clinic pediatrics departments in 12 locations.

"The safety of medications that lactating mothers are prescribed are often a concern to the prescribing practitioner," said Krainz. "Many use the ...